Author: Bethnal Green Branch Museum
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropological museums and collections
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Bethnal Green Branch Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Charles James Longman
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Archery
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382822822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author: Stephen Shennan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351507060
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 639

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Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure and content of languages, and rules for behavior are passed from parents to children and from individual to individual. Mapping Our Ancestors demonstrates how various genealogical or "phylogenetic" methods can be used both to answer questions about human history and to build evolutionary explanations for the shape of history. Anthropologists are increasingly turning to quantitative phylogenetic methods. These methods depend on the transmission of information regardless of mode and as such are applicable to many anthropological questions. In this way, phylogenetic approaches have the potential for building bridges among the various subdisciplines of anthropology; an exciting prospect indeed. The structure of Mapping Our Ancestors reflects the editors' goal of developing a common understanding of the methods and conditions under which ancestral relations can be derived in a range of data classes of interest to anthropologists. Specifically, this volume explores the degree to which patterns of ancestry can be determined from artifactual, genetic, linguistic, and behavioral data and how processes such as selection, transmission, and geography impact the results of phylogenetic analyses. Mapping Our Ancestors provides a solid demonstration of the potential of phylogenetic methods for studying the evolutionary history of human populations using a variety of data sources and thus helps explain how cultural material, language, and biology came to be as they are.

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Languages : en
Pages : 574

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Author: Elizabeth Edwards
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147252733X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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The status of photographs in the history of museum collections is a complex one. From its very beginnings the double capacity of photography - as a tool for making a visual record on the one hand and an aesthetic form in its own right on the other - has created tensions about its place in the hierarchy of museum objects. While major collections of 'art' photography have grown in status and visibility, photographs not designated 'art' are often invisible in museums. Yet almost every museum has photographs as part of its ecosystem, gathered as information, corroboration or documentation, shaping the understanding of other classes of objects, and many of these collections remain uncatalogued and their significance unrecognised. This volume presents a series of case studies on the historical collecting and usage of photographs in museums. Using critically informed empirical investigation, it explores substantive and historiographical questions such as what is the historical patterning in the way photographs have been produced, collected and retained by museums? How do categories of the aesthetic and evidential shape the history of collecting photographs? What has been the work of photographs in museums? What does an understanding of photograph collections add to our understanding of collections history more broadly? What are the methodological demands of research on photograph collections? The case studies cover a wide range of museums and collection types, from art galleries to maritime museums, national collections to local history museums, and international perspectives including Cuba, France, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK. Together they offer a fascinating insight into both the history of collections and collecting, and into the practices and poetics of archives across a range of disciplines, including the history of science, museum studies, archaeology and anthropology.

Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338535692X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714

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